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America closes refineries while the rest of the world races to build them
When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz at the end of February, the world relearned a lesson it keeps forgetting: crude oil, by itself, moves nothing. Trucks, tractors, aircraft and ships run on diesel, gasoline, jet fuel and bunker fuel—transportation fuels that exist only after crude oil has passed through a refinery. Asia felt the…